Papers Published (ordered by theme and reverse chronological)Urban Ecology -- Assessing the Effects of Urban Development on Natural Resources Chang, H, GH Parandvash, and V Shandas, 2010. "Spatial Variations of Single Family Residential Water Use in Portland, Oregon." Urban Geography 31(7): 953-972 (view article).* Shandas, V, G.H. Parandvash, 2010. "Integrating Urban Form and Demographics in Water Demand Management: An Empirical Case Study of Portland Oregon (US)." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37 (1): 112-128 (view article).* Shandas, V., 2009. "Climate Justice: Towards a Proactive Response to Social Inequities" Connections 10: 4-5 (view article). Shandas, V, and M Alberti, 2009. "Exploring the role of vegetation fragmentation on aquatic conditions: Linking upland with riparian areas in Puget Sound lowland streams", Landscape and Urban Planning 60: 66-75 (view article).* Shandas V, and L George, 2009. "Spatial Patterns of Air Toxins in the Region", Metroscape (view article). Duh JD, V Shandas, H Chang, and LA George, 2008. "Rates of Urbanisation and the Resiliency of Air and Water Quality", Science of the Total Environment 400 (1-3): 238 - 256 (view article).* Shandas V, and M Merrick, 2008. "Floodplains: Balancing Nature and Human Needs", Metroscape (view article). Baker L, A Brazel, LB Byrne, A Felson, M Grove, K Hill, KC Nelson, V Shandas, J Walker, 2007 (authors in alphabetical order).“Effects of Human Choice on Characteristics of Urban Ecosystems”, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 88 (4): 404–409 (view article). Shandas V, 2007. “An Empirical Study of Streamside Landowners’ Interest in Riparian Conservation”, Journal of the American Planning Association 72(2): 173 – 184 (view article).* Shandas V, A Straub, and Y. Kou, 2006. “Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: The Geography of Water”, Metroscape (view article). Shandas V, 2005. “Interactions Between Vegetation Patterns, Social Preferences, and Stream Biotic Conditions: An integrated approach to watershed planning”. Proceeding of the Georgia Basin Puget Sound Research Conference (view article).* Shandas V, M Alberti, J Gibson, S Moddemeyer, and J Meijer-Irons, 2003. “A GIS-Based Water Demand Model for Municipal Application” Proceedings of MapIndia's International Conference on Geospatial Sciences (view article).* Science and Policy -- Integrating Environmental Information and Decision Making Shandas, V, 2010. "Water and Land Use Planning: A case for better coordination." Oregon Planners Journal, March/April: 3 - 8 (view article). Bassett, E, and V Shandas 2010. "Innovation in Municipal Climate Planning", Journal of the American Planning Association 76(4): 435 - 450 (view article).* Mills A, T Francis, V Shandas, K Whittaker, and JK Graybill, 2008. "Using best available science to protect critical areas in Washington state: challenges and barriers to planners", Urban Ecosystems 11 (4) (view article).* Shandas V, JK Graybill, and C Ryan, 2008. “Are Planners Using Ecosystem Based Management when Developing Environmental Policy? Evidence from the Pacific Northwest (US)”, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 51(5): 649-664 (view article).* Francis T, K Whittaker, V Shandas, A Mills, and J Graybill, 2004. “Using science in the environmental policy process: A case study from Washington State”, Ecology and Society 10(1): Article 35 (view article).* O’Hara S, V Shandas, and J Vazquez, 2000. “Communicating Sustainable Development Options - Who Evaluates the Trade-Offs?” in: I. Ring, B. Klauer, F. Waetzold, B. Mansson (eds.) Regional Sustainability: Applied Ecological Economics Bridging the Gap between Natural and Social Sciences. Physica Verlag. Heidelberg, Germany.* Shandas V, and S O’Hara, 1998. “Frontiers in Environmental Discourse: Assessing the Potential of Quantitative Tools in Stakeholder Communication Challenges”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Ecological Economics and Regional Sustainability. Published by the Center for Environmental Research. Leipzig-Halle, Germany. Civic Ecology -- Empowering Communities Seltzer, E., E Bassett, J Cortright, V Shandas, T Smith, 2011. Making EcoDistricts:City-scale climate action one neighborhood at a time. Solutions. Shandas, V., A Nelson, C Arendes, and C Cibor, 2010. "Tabor to the River: An evaluation of outreach efforts and opportunities for engaging residents in stormwater management." Technical Report, submitted to City of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services (view report). Shandas, V., A Nelson, and C Arendes, 2010. "Towards a civic ecology of green infrastructure: Opportunities for expanding public involvement in stormwater management." Conference Proceedings from the North American Association for Environmental Education (view article). Shandas, V., 2010. "Measuring with Meaning: Ground data in place, perspective, and practice." In Seltzer E. (Ed.), Making EcoDistricts: Concepts and methods for advancing sustainability in neighborhoods (view chapter) (view book). Shandas V, and WB Messer, 2008. "Fostering Green Communities through Civic Engagement: Lessons from 12 years of environmental stewardship in the Portland metropolitan area", Journal of the American Planning Association 74(4): 1-11 (view article).* Shandas V, 2009. "Bailout Strategists: Thinking through Philanthropy in a Time of Troubles", Metroscape (view article). Shandas V, 2008. "Good Planning, Good Health: An interview with Rajiv Bhatia", Metroscape (view article). Merrick M, and V Shandas, 2007. "Geography of Opportunity", Metroscape (view article). Higher Education -- Evaluating Innovations Graybill JK, V Shandas, J Fyffe, and E Franks, (in press). “Negotiating the Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education: Perspectives from the field". Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide, M Nerad, and M. Heggelund (Eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press.* Graybill JK, and V Shandas, 2010. "Doctoral Student and Early Academic Career Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity” in the Oxford Handbook on Interdisciplinarity, R Frodeman, JT Klein, C Mitcham (Eds.), Oxford University Press (view article).* Graybill JK, S Dolling, V Shandas, J Withey, A Greve, and GL Simon, 2006. “A Rough Guide to Interdisciplinarity: Graduate Student Perspectives”, BioScience 56(9): 757-763 (view article).* O'Hara S, V Shandas, and E Wright, 2000. "The Cost of Technology Intensive Education: A preliminary analysis of studio physics", Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching 19(4): 379 - 396 (view abstract).* Shandas, V., and others, 1995. BioSITE: Students Investigating Their Environment” (first edition). Urban Watershed Curriculum for the City of San Jose, California (USA). Published by the Children’s Discover Museum of San Jose (view website). Articles Under Preparation and Review Shandas, V, JK Graybill, G Chung, C Herman, and M Li, (under review). Global Perspectives of Risk Taking among Early Career Researchers, in M Nerad (Ed.), Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide 2, University of Washington Press. The implications of climate change on residential water use: A micro-scale analysis of Portland (OR), Climate Change. Localizing Environmental Health Impacts of Climate Change: Targeting neighborhood scale interventions for reducing mortality from heat waves, Health Affairs. Socio-Ecological Determinants of Urban Canopy Cover: An empirical assessment of Portland Oregon using geographically weighted regression. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. Intra-Urban Analysis of Communities Disproportionately affected by Urban Heat: A case study of Portland, Oregon. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. Integrative Environmental Science and Management Scholarship: Rhetoric or Reality, Ecology and Society. Ecosystem Services as a Pedagogical Tool for Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaborations, BioScience. A Spatially Explicit Approach to Assessing Ambient Air Toxins: Developing rapid assessment tools for integrating transportation and land use planning, Environment Monitoring and Assessment. * Indicates a peer-reviewed publication. |
